The Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Kentucky offers students a wide variety of potential job opportunities.
Earth and Environmental Sciences: More than just rocks. from College of Arts and Sciences on Vimeo.
We often hear about veterans that can't shake traumatic experiences and memories of war, but what about those who find ways to cope? Travis Martin, a PhD candidate in English, is doing research to document the ways in which veterans use the arts to process and move past trauma.
Coaches in UK Athletics aren’t only committed to their team’s success.
This was on display recently when women’s basketball head coach, Matthew Mitchell, shared some of his life lessons and wisdom with A&S Wired students during a weekly Coffee Chat.
We meet the Higgs field, and also consider aspects of empty space and the universe. Two demonstrations are used to model how the Higgs field gives mass to particles: sugar and ping-pong balls; and a prism and light beams.
What's New in Science - Tim Gorringe Spring 2013 Series, University of Kentucky
This segment outlines the presentation and introduces the large hadron collider (LHC), the massive ATLAS and CMS experiments, and the economic scale and human scale of the experiments. It ends with speculations on the Nobel Prize for the Higgs particle prediction and Higgs particle discovery.
What's New in Science - Tim Gorringe Spring 2013 Series, University of Kentucky
We examine the concept of mass from the different perspectives of Newton and Einstein. Fields are introduced, starting with the familiar gravitational and magnetic fields. Our modern understandings of the mass of an atom and the masses of the proton and the neutron are not as simple as one might expect.
What's New in Science - Tim Gorringe Spring 2013 Series, University of Kentucky
